by Carolyn Thomas ♥ @HeartSisters
One thing is becoming clear as we pass the two-month milestone of our current COVID-19 global pandemic: I don’t like uncertainty.
I like feeling in charge of tomorrow’s plans. I like things that make sense to me. I like being pretty sure of what’s coming up next. But precious little certainty exists any more for me (or for anybody else – including those tiresome politicians pretending to know). I’m not sure of very much these days and by now, I’ve had enough of uncertainty.
But I do like the way psychotherapist Nancy Colier explained this level of pandemic uncertainty recently. She compared it to “hitting the wall” during the last few miles of running a 26.2-mile marathon. . .
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop. The expression dates back to the early 1900s, from the description of hearing the loud ‘thump’ of an upstairs apartment neighbour loudly dropping one shoe onto a bedroom floor. It’s that state of suspended focus. Waiting. Waiting. Not knowing when that other shoe upstairs will finally drop so that you can roll over and go quietly back to sleep.
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